A pirate ship model can be printed out from a Physible file, now hosted on The Pirate Bay.
Screenshot by Luke Hopewell/ZDNet Australia

The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most infamous online piracy and file-sharing sites, is now hosting a type of mock-up file that allows your 3D printer to create physical objects.

The group announced yesterday via its blog, as first reported by GigaOM, that users can now search in a new category called "Physibles."

Physibles, as the blog explains, are mock-up files that allow a 3D printer to create a physical object:

"We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or, as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three-dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future, you will print your spare parts for your vehicles."